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  Any New ideas for Archival of footage or is hd still the best solution?

  Posted by Anthony Miles on December 1, 2005 at 3:42 am

  Was wondering what the currennt info is on the best archival of DvcPro HD from the P2 on ther HVX or otherwise. I will likely use a firestore or similar device for field recording. I edit with FCP 5 on OSX.

  Thanks,
  Anthony
  4thwalltvandfilm.com

  Toke replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Toke

  December 1, 2005 at 7:05 am

  Blu-ray/hd-dvd for 2006 or Ultrium if you shoot a lot.
  2007 maybe InPhase’s HVD.
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  Thomas Mathai

  December 4, 2005 at 11:45 am

  Depends on your budget.

  If you have a big budget, you can look into LTO 3 which hold 400GB uncompressed, 800GB compressed per tape, but I wouldn’t archive compressed.

  If you’re budget is significantly lower, inexpensive SATA or ATA drives seem to be the common solution.

  Nothing is failsafe though. It’s all about how long term you plan to keep your archives.
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  Toke

  December 6, 2005 at 7:42 pm

  Hard disks are are worst for archival, because breaking of reading mechanism also results data loss. Other medias do not have this problem.

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